Court jails Mama Boko Haram again for another N11m contract fraud  

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil (aka Mama Boko Haram), Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode to fourteen years jail term each.

EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Wednesday said the defendants defendants were arraigned on September 14, 2020 by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on two counts bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N11m.

The counts read partly, “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura, Prince Lawal Shoyode whilst being Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aids Foundation (Non-Governmental Organisation) and Saidu Mukhtar (now at large) sometime in July, 2018 at Maiduguri within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N11,000,000.00 (Eleven Million Naira) only from one Muhammed Ambare of Muhammed Ambare Ventures under the false pretence of executing a purported contract of supply, installation and servicing of 2 units of X- Ray Machine Model 1800, which you knew to be false and thereby  committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences, Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges, prompting the matter to go into full trial.

 In the course of trial, prosecution counsel Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and S.O. Saka presented one witness and tendered several documents before the court in proving the case.

Delivering judgment on Wednesday after several adjournments at the instance of the defendants, Justice Kumaliya convicted and sentenced them on count one and two to seven years imprisonment each.  The prison terms are to run concurrently.

The judge ordered the convicts to jointly and severally restitute the sum of N8m to the petitioner or serve an additional seven years’ prison term.

The convicts’ journey to the Correctional facility started as a result of their dubious act of awarding purported contracts for the supply, installation and services of two units of X- Ray Machine Model 1800 to the petitioner and his company.

They made the petitioner to transfer the sum of N11m into a third party’s account, Saidu Muktar (now at large), and the contract was neither executed nor the money returned to the petitioner.

Recall that on Monday, February 12, 2024, Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court sentenced Mama Boko Haram and two others to 10 years’ imprisonment for N40m fraud.